Author: elliot todd

This report, compiled by Centre for Sustainable Fashion, summarises the context, activities and findings of the 2017 discourse between three identified change-makers within the fashion education system – academic leaders, educators and students. It presents a set of provocations to be explored through activities at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit 2018.

Our new post-doctoral research fellow Francesco Mazzarella interviewed Laura Santamaria, co-founder and editor in chief of Sublime magazine, about the contribution from media to promote sustainable fashion. Sublime magazine has been a friend of CSF for a long time; they joined us at the very start of our journey 10 years ago. We are witnessing the […]

London College of Fashion have been working in partnership with luxury fashion group Kering since 2014, so far enabling more than 1000 graduate changemakers to enter the fashion industry with critical sustainability knowledge and experience. In the third Better Lives lecture of 2018, the co-creators of the partnership will discuss the relevance of industry – […]

This year is the ten year anniversary of Centre for Sustainable Fashion. A milestone that is particularly meaningful to me, as it marks the time I enrolled on the inaugural year of the MA Fashion and Environment, now known as Fashion Futures, at LCF. Sometimes it is only with hindsight and reflection that we can […]

Better Lives is a term we use to describe the work we do at LCF that uses fashion, as a discipline, to drive change, build a sustainable future and improve the way we live. This encompasses research and projects across all levels (PhD, MA and BA), and areas of the college’s portfolio including fashion design, […]

Centre for Sustainable Fashion are pleased to be hosting two dates of Wednesday open mornings for LCF students. This is a fantastic opportunity for students working on projects inclusive of sustainability, to have one-on-one tutorials with the CSF team and our researchers. Email sustainability@fashion.arts.ac.uk with your preferred date/time and please provide us with a short summary of […]

Fashion has always sought to celebrate nature – from sumptuous silks and floral patterns, to the spectacular creations of designers such as Stella McCartney and Christopher Raeburn, it is a centuries-old seam running through the clothes we all wear. In spite of this reverence for the natural world, fashion seems destined to harm it. With […]

The Rana Plaza disaster on April 24th saw the growth of the international campaign, Fashion Revolution and a global call for transparency in the often opaque and ever glamorised fashion industry. Over the past few years there have been many positive changes both in terms of the industry’s social and environmental impact, however, we are […]

Better Lives is a term we use to describe the work we do at LCF that uses fashion, as a discipline, to drive change, build a sustainable future and improve the way we live. This encompasses research and projects across all levels (PhD, MA and BA), and areas of the college’s portfolio including fashion design, […]